The Siren Song of Elliott Abrams

By Kathleen Christison Former CIA analyst

“Coup” is the word being widely used to describe what happened in Gaza in June when Hamas militias defeated the armed security forces of Fatah and chased them out of Gaza. But, as so often with the manipulative language used in the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, the terminology here is backward. Hamas was the legally constituted, democratically elected government of the Palestinians, so in the first place Hamas did not stage a coup but rather was the target of a coup planned against it. Furthermore, the coup — which failed in Gaza but succeeded overall when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, acting in violation of Palestinian law, cut Gaza adrift, unseated the Palestinian unity government headed by Hamas, and named a new prime minister and cabinet — was the handiwork of the United States and Israel.

The Fatah attacks against Hamas in Gaza were initiated at the whim of, and with arms and training provided by, the United States and Israel. No one seems to be making any secret of this. Immediately after Hamas won legislative elections in January 2006, Elliott Abrams, who runs U.S. policy toward Israel from his senior position on the National Security Council staff, met with a group of Palestinian businessmen and spoke openly of the need for a “hard coup” against Hamas. According to Palestinians who were there, Abrams was “unshakable” in his determination to oust Hamas. When the Palestinians, urging engagement with Hamas instead of confrontation, observed that Abrams’ scheme would bring more suffering and even starvation to Gaza’s already impoverished population, Abrams dismissed their concerns by claiming that it wouldn’t be the fault of the U.S. if that happened.

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John Hagee: Commodity For the New Comintern

By Patrick Grimm

He’s at it again. The Texas TV preacher John Hagee is choosing sides. Of course, in true Hagee fashion, this fundamentalist lover of all things Jewish, Zionist and Israeli has chosen to turn his back on his own Christian brothers and sisters and instead embrace the most extreme kinds of haters in the American Jewish community. In fact, Hagee is even willing to toss Jesus Christ Himself under the bus to garner favor and ingratiate himself to the moneyed Jews he is so fond of courting. It’s Israel-First and the Christian doctrines held since the Reformation must be crumpled up and thrown away, all to get the Jews smiling and the Jewish money and influence flowing in the direction of Cornerstone Church. It doesn’t hurt that Hagee is the only Gentile to ever receive a humanitarian award from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. They know a good commodity when they see one. In fact, it was Jewish-owned religious TV stations that made this man a dispensationalist kingpin.

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